Reducing disparities among regions within European countries is the aim of European and national structural policies. In particular, a European grant contributes to the German governmental program for equalizing regional unemployment. The goal is to bring it down to the national average by...

Unstable schedules—hours that are inadequate, unpredictable (i.e., deviate from scheduled hours), or that vary from week to week—hurt employees. We examine whether they also affect financial performance. Using 52 weeks of data from over 1,000 stores and more than 15,000 employees of a...